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Article: Interview

Tim Bowness: Ghost Lights and Life Sentences

Read "Tim Bowness: Ghost Lights and Life Sentences" reviewed by John Kelman


As much as it's something most would prefer to avoid, when a pair of musicians share a lengthy musical history together it's difficult not to compare and contrast the work they do when apart. Beyond contributing added clarity to their individual work, it helps to articulate what each of them bring to the table when they're ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Tim Bowness: Lost in the Ghostlight

Read "Tim Bowness: Lost in the Ghostlight" reviewed by John Kelman


It's a somewhat hidden truth that a sizeable percentage of any musician's fan base believes that the music their favorite artists make is a direct reflection of their tastes. While an artist's music ought, indeed, be a reflection of what moves them, it's another truth that, more often than not, their listening habits run much farther ...

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Do Not Disturb

Label: Esoteric Antenna
Released: 2016
Track listing: Aloft; Alfa Berlina; Room 1210; Forever Falling; Shikata Ga Nai; (Oh No! I Must Have Said) Yes; Brought to Book; Almost the Words; Go.

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Article: Album Review

Van der Graaf Generator: Do Not Disturb

Read "Do Not Disturb" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


You can't have a serious conversation about the infancy of progressive rock without citing Van der Graff Generator (VdGG) as one of the genre's driving forces amid its influence back in the '70s and beyond. They may not have been as widely known or sold as many records as King Crimson, Yes or Emerson, Lake & ...

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Merlin Atmos (Deluxe Edition)

Label: Esoteric Antenna
Released: 2015
Track listing: CD1 (Merlin Atmos): Flight; Lifetime; All That Before; Bunsho; A Plague of Lighthouse-keepers; Gog. CD2 (Bonus Atmos): Interference Patterns; Over the Hill; Your Time Starts Now; Scorched Earth; Meurglys III, The Songwriter's Guild; Man-Erg; Childlike Faith in Childhood's End.

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Article: Extended Analysis

Progeny - Seven Shows from Seventy-Two

Read "Progeny - Seven Shows from Seventy-Two" reviewed by John Kelman


A sad life truth is that, for far too many people, massive success changes everything. Despite making more money than would last the average family many lifetimes, they go through it like water; they gradually begin to believe all the positive press and massive sales, becoming legends in their own mind; and, perhaps worst of all, ...

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Article: Rediscovery

Haken: The Mountain

Read "Haken: The Mountain" reviewed by John Kelman


Haken The MountainInside Out Records2013 For a group as young as Britain's Haken to find The Mountain selected by Prog Magazine's readers as one of “The 100 Greatest Prog Albums Albums of All Time"--and at an über-respectable position of #54--is a remarkable enough feat for a group with only two albums ...

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News: Recording

Van Der Graaf Generator Release New Live Album "Merlin Atmos" On Esoteric Antenna

Van Der Graaf Generator Release New Live Album "Merlin Atmos" On Esoteric Antenna

London, UK - ESOTERIC ANTENNA, are pleased to announce the release of the marvellous new live album by Van Der Graaf Generator, Merlin Atmos on February 2, 2015. Recorded in 2013, the limited edition 2CD Digipack features the first ever full live performance of “FLIGHT” and “A PLAGUE OF LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS” In June 2013, Peter Hammill, ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Merlin Atmos (Deluxe Edition)

Read "Merlin Atmos (Deluxe Edition)" reviewed by John Kelman


For a group that has released only three studio albums since reforming in 2005 after a quarter-century hiatus--longer when considering the “classic" lineup with singer/pianist/guitarist Peter Hammill, keyboardist Hugh Banton and drummer Guy Evans was last heard on World Record (Charisma, 1976), and forgetting about 2012's atypical ALT (Esoteric), an album of improvisation-driven instrumentals--Van der Graaf ...

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Article: Interview

Arun Ghosh: A Very British-Asian Jazz Head-Space

Read "Arun Ghosh: A  Very British-Asian Jazz Head-Space" reviewed by Ian Patterson


If clarinetist/composer Arun Ghosh continues as he's going there's a danger he'll soon dethrone saxophonist Gilad Atzmon as the UK's hardest-working jazz musician. In between gigs, festival appearances and European tours, Ghosh is busy writing music for theatre, film, dance and multi-media events. His relatively short recording career has been marked by a refusal to stand ...


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